Jennifer ,
You are expressing the view of many excellent teachers. Gartner's insight has helped fashion many instructional design components of online education. While most have not yet been fully implemented, you can see them in some of the more advanced scenario-based, interactive, audiovisual learning objects. As we move away from the text-based online environment
these instructional components will become more pervasive in the online classroom. The best is yet to come.
Dr. S. David Vaillancourt
